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City of Barcelona moving away from proprietary software
The City of Barcelona is migrating its computer systems away from the Windows platform, so reports the Spanish newspaper El País. The City's strategy is first to replace all user applications with open-source alternatives, until the underlying Windows operating system is the only proprietary software remaining. In a final step, the operating system will be replaced with Linux.
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Really glad to see the whole Public Money, Public Code starting to take off more. It's beyond ridiculous that tax-payers have to bear the costs of such large projects, and we don't even get to see the end results 99% of the time.
Besides that it allows us, or at least some of us, to hold the government accountable for what they do.
I did this years ago. Also use UbuntuMATE.
The Linux distribution eventually used will probably be Ubuntu, since the City of Barcelona is already running 1,000 Ubuntu-based desktops as part of a pilot.